The surprise of my life : an autobiography
著者
書誌事項
The surprise of my life : an autobiography
（Life writing series, 5）
Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, c1998
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内容説明・目次
内容説明
""It's an autobiography! If I tell you what's in it you won't read the book."" - Claire Drainie Taylor
Or would you? Maybe you'd be intrigued by the progression of a life begun as an unexceptional little girl born to a middle-class Jewish Canadian couple in a small prairie town who, at age sixteen, married a refined Englishman, and survived the Great Depression, partly alone in a shack in the woods of Vancouver Island. Or how, only a few months after returning to Vancouver, with no training and minimal education, this same young woman walked on stage at one of Canada's finest old theatres, and went on to a successful thirty-year career as an actress and radio dialogue writer.
Having been compelled by her family to write her memoir, it wasn't until she'd finished and reread her manuscript that Claire Drainie Taylor realized what an extraordinary life she'd led. Her descriptions of the many fascinating incidents that make up her story, and how she dealt with them, revealed herself to herself in a way that illuminates what she calls ""The Surprise of My Life.""
目次
The Surprise of My Life: An Autobiography by Claire Drainie Taylor
Foreword
Marlene Kadar
Acknowledgements
Author's Note
The Beginning
Swift Current
And All the Other Places
Vancouver-First Marriage
Rock Bay
John Drainie Makes an Entrance
Life with John
And the Children Came...and Came...and Came...
Interlude
The Final Stretch
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